Python Secret Weblog for 2007 June

(34) Wed Jun 20 2007 12:10 Brief Python 3000 thoughts:

Briefly, some of my Python 3000 thoughts. I see quite a bit of enthusiasm in some other blogs. I'm not very enthusiastic. While I understand the need to be able to break backwards compatibility, I am worried about Python forking into two parallel versions (2.x and 3.x) for many, many years. Such a fork can't be good for the Python community.

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(4) Fri Jun 22 2007 11:43 Python 3 worries: feedback:

I've received a lot of feedback to my previous blog entry. I stated there that I'm worried about the costs of breaking backwards compatibility in Python 3, and its cost to the Python community. I'm glad I received this feedback, because the topic bears a bit of attention.

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(10) Sat Jun 23 2007 00:26 the purpose to my "whinging" about the transition to Python 3:

Collin Winter writes:

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